Stock-watering device.



F. E. WILLIAMSON.

STOCK WATERING DEVICE.

APPLIOATION FILED NOV. 25, 1909.

Patented Feb. 22, .1910.

INVENTO]? e5 QM FRANK E. WILLIAMSON, OF GLASGO, KANSAS.

STOCK-\VATERING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 25. 1908.

atented Feb. 22, 1910.

Serial No. 464,465.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK I \VILLIAM- soN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Grlasco, in the county of Cloud and State of Kansas, have invented new and useful Improvements in Stock-Vatering Devices,

.of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to drinking fountains especially adapted for furnishing the larger stock animals, such as hogs, with, a constant supply of drinking water, delivered in a regular manner so as to avoid waste and protected from becoming fouled. Such devices must be of a size to contain a large body of water, and hence, when filled are very heavy and difficult to move from place to place or from positions permitting them to be filled to those of use.

My present invention has for its object to provide a stock-watering device or drinking fountain that even though of a size snf ficient to contain a large body of water may yet be easily moved from filling to deliver) positions.

On the 20th of October, 1908, I patented a stock-watering device embodying some of the features contained in the device covered by this case, my patent being numbered 901,860. The device disclosed in that patent contemplated the bodily lifting of the \vater-containing vessel and the provision of means by which the vessel could be suspended and supported upon trunnions or pivotal pins. In my present invention I have dispensed with the supporting and suspending means disclosed in the said patent and have produced a drinking fountain for stock comprising a water-holding vessel of novel construction, and a supporting frame therefor which I will now proceed to describe, reference being had to the accompanying drawings in which,

Figure 1 is a perspective View of the pro" ferred form of stock-watering device embodying my improvements, the parts being illustrated in position for use. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the parts in position for filling the water-containing vessel. Fig. 3 is a side view of a form of the invention having av supporting f'ame different from that illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2. Fig. 4; is acentral vertical section of the device when the parts are disposed as represented in Fig. 1.

In the drawings A represents the water receptacle which is of cylindrical form.

This vessel is prefe'ably formed of sheet metal though it may be constructed of wood if found more desirable, and is closed except for the [low and vent openings, Z) and c, to be more particularly described and located. The cireumferential sides of the vessel may he formed. near either end, with ribs a constituting between them grooves in which rest the tracks of the frame to be described. \Vheu the vessel is formed of metal these ribs may he formed by suitably shaping the metal of the Vessel; and when it is constructed of wood they may be formed of attached slaves. In each case they serve to strengthen the vessel as well as to constitute guiding ribs for directing its movements. This vesse] is supported upon its side, that is, with its axis horizontal, upon a frame consisting of parallel longitudinal pieces, I), I), constituting a track on which the vessel may roll. In the form of my invention illustrated in Figs. 1. and 2 wherein the frame is formed of metal these truck pieces are made of gas pipe or iron rods turned up at their respective ends to constitute front and rear stops, E and F. The longitudinal pieces I) are directly connected by cross pieces G, G, and the upper ends of the upright stop pieces are preferably united by cross pieces II, II. The length of the track pieces, I). I), and consequently the distance between the uprights or stops, E and F, is such that the vessel resting upon the frame formed of these parts will occupy the proper position for supplying water when resting against the front stops and the proper position for tilling when rolled on the frame and caused to rest against the rear stops F.

In order to hold the vessel in place I employ a swinging bail I which is preferably pivotally supported by the cross piece II connecting the upper end of the uprights I). This bail is curved to conform to the shape of the vessel and when swung down into place, as represented in Fig. l, more or less embraces the vessel and holds it in proper position to supply water for the stock and prevents the animals from moving the vessel in their eagerness to reach the water. The bail can also be used to hold the vessel against the rear uprights F, in position for lilting, as represented in Fig. 2, where it is illustrated as engaging with the bottom of the exterior water trough to be presently described.

In Fig. 3 I have represented a wooden frame of simple construction in which D, D, represent the longitudinal parallel track pieces, E, F, the front and rear stops, and I, pins adapted to be set into holes or sockets in the track bars D to hold the vessel in position.

The drinking trough or fount J of the walls, m, and is protected by a hood a. The

rim or lip of the trough is parallel with the central longitudinal axis of the vessel A and is not much above the surface of the ground when the vessel is turned into the position for feeding so as to accommodate animals which cannot conveniently drink from a high or deep trough. The flow of water to the trough is controlled by hydrostatic pressure, there being a flow opening, I), and a vent opening, 0, in the wall of the vessel within the trough located as represented in Fig. 4. This arrangement insures the water being maintained in the trough at a substantially uniform level. The bottom is of the trough is preferably tangential to the circumference of the vessel and constitutes a flat face that is adapted to rest upon one of the cross pieces Gr when the vessel is in position for use, as represented in Figs. 1, 3 and l. This insures the vessel coming to rest in proper position for supplying the water to the trough even should the front stop pieces fail to arrest the vessel. The drinking trough being entirely exterior to the vessel tends to overbalance the latter, especially when it is filled with water which is the case when it is in use, and will thus tend to hold the vessel steadily in position for use. This overbalancing of the vessel by the weight of the exterior trough may be relied upon to maintain the vessel in position for use, without the aid of the bail I, or pins I, or equivalent devices, in cases where the vessel is used to supply small animals, such as fowls. But with vigorous animals like hogs, the bail, or some equivalent device, is found to be desirable or necessary.

It will be observed that the hood 1%, in connection with the trough, constitutes a receptacle into which water may be poured or delivered when the vessel is turned into the position represented in Fig. 2, from which receptacle it will flow through the openings 6, 0, into the vessel.

l/Vhat I claim is 1. In a stock-watering device, a cylindrical water-containing vessel adapted to lie upon its side so it may be rolled from filling to feeding positions and carrying a drinking trough to which the water from the vessel is fed and in which it is maintained atan approximately uniform level by atmospheric pressure, the trough occupying a position to supply stock when the vessel is rolled to one position and a position to facilitate filling when the vessel is rolled to another position the rim of the trough being parallel with the central axis of the vessel.

In a stock watering device, a cylindrical water-containing vessel adapted to lie upon its side so it may be bodily rolled from filling to supplying positions, and vice versa, and carrying a drinking trough to which the water from the vessel is fed and in which it is maintained by atmospheric pressure at an approximately uniform level, the trough occupying a position intermediate between the ends of the vessel and exterior to the circumference thereof and having its rim parallel with the central axis thereof, and a hood also secured to the exterior of the vessel and arranged above the water trough so as to cover it when in supplying position, the edges of the hood joining the sides of the trough whereby the hood and trough together constitute a receptacle into which water may be poured and from which it may pass into the interior of the vessel when the latter is rolled to filling position.

3. In a stock-watering device, a cylindrical Water-containing vessel provided with an attached drinking trough to which the water from the vessel is fed, in combination with a frame upon which the vessel is supported on its side, the frame having longitudinal track pieces on which the vessel may roll.

4. In a stock-Watering device, the combi-.

is fed, supporting pieces on which the vessel lies and along which it may be rolled, and stops for arresting and holding the vessel in positions respectively for delivering water to the trough and for filling the vessel.

6. In a stock-watering device, the combination of a cylindrical vessel having a drinking trough to which the water is supplied from the vessel, a frame on which the vessel lies and along which it may be rolled, means for holding the vessel steady in position to I supply Water to the trough, and a bail for holding the vessel against the said means.

7. ln a StOCk-WiltCIlTlQ device, the COllllJination of a cylindrical vessel with a drinking trough attached thereto, a frame upon which the vessel lies and along which it may he rolled having front and rear stops for arresting the l'IlOVOl'lltIll'S oil the vessel as it rolls into drinking and into filling positions, respectively, and means for holding the \essel steady against said stops.

In a stock-watering device, the combination of a cylindrical vessel having a drinking trough, a frame on which the vessel lies and along which it is free to roll, front and rear uprights at the ends of the frame, and a swinging hail adapted to engage with and hold the vessel steady when resting against the front stops in drinking position or against the rear stops in position for filling. 20

F. E. TLLTAh'lSON.

Witnesses:

GEO. l5. PITTS, J. S. BARKER. 

